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"Stars are never sleeping," don't you know, so while you were out for the night, visions of Jareth from Labyrinth dancing in your head (or maybe that's just us), David Bowie debuted a new music video. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) is our second sampling of The Next Day, the rock legend's upcoming album (March 26), and first record in 10 years. So if you've ever wondered what he's been doing all that time, let's pretend this short film is your answer.

Welcome to the Bowie household, somewhere in sunny suburbia.

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Meet his wife, Tilda Swinton.

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Meet his neighbours, a pair of superstars who've shamelessly ripped off his Man Who Feel to Earth steez -- just like any wannabe who worships the Berlin trilogy, really -- and who won't let the old folks enjoy their "nice life" of staying in with an episode of SpongeBob and a TV dinner.

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This being a Bowie video, and one directed by Floria Sigismondi at that, the visuals are suitably twisted. (The Toronto-raised filmmaker directed Earthling-era videos Little Wonder and Dead Man Walking -- which are now 15 years old, to give some perspective on how long he's been away).

As for the song, which will be released as a limited edition 45 for Record Store Day March 12, it chugs along with a similar style to Reality-era rockers New Killer Star or Looking For Water and finds Bowie bemoaning celebrity culture -- "satyrs and their child wives" and that -- like so many Canada.com trolls.

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